On Wednesday 13 Aug 2003 7:41 am, Anarky wrote:
>     normally I use 'gnome-system-monitor' to kill apps, but now an X
> app won't stop with that even. So I do "ps aux | grep app_name" and
> then try "kill pid" ... but still nothing will happen. Any idea? last
> time I fixed it via a reboot ... but I thought linux wasn't like that
> ... greets

xkill
or
kill -KILL pid

Just "kill pid" is not hard enough, it just sends the equivilant of a 
Ctrl-C to the app. The KILL signal is not trappable, it should kill 
anything. xkill is easier if the app has a window open; click on the 
window and the app dies.

-- 
Richard Urwin

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